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Subjects:

Human ecology -- Himalaya Mountains Region.
Ethnoecology -- Himalaya Mountains Region.
Traditional ecological knowledge -- Himalaya Mountains Region.
Indigenous peoples -- Himalaya Mountains Region -- Social life and customs.
Himalaya Mountains Region -- Environmental conditions.
Himalaya Mountains Region -- Civilization.

Contents:

Situating environmental humanities in the new Himalayas : an introduction / Dan Smyer Yü
Relatedness, trans-species knots, and yak personhood in the Bhutan Highlands / Jelle J.P. Wouters
Lepcha water view and climate change in Sikkim Himalaya / Charisma K. Lepcha
Eco-spiritual and economic perceptions in Bhutan's Haa District / Thinley Dema
Narratives from a fluvial world : poetics of Charland Dwelling in a Neocolonial Assam / Bhagarbi Das
Painting the genesis of the Lepcha : a world emerging from water spirits / Rongnyoo Lepcha and Mongfing Lepcha
Muddying the waters : the invention and enclosure of Tibet's wetlands / Ruth Gamble
Aloof but not abandoned : relationality and the exploitation of the environment in the Garo Hills of India / Erik de Maaker
Cordyceps, climate change and cosmological imbalance in the Bhutan highlands / Kinley Choki
Local knowledge of floods and coping strategies in downstream Mahakali River, Nepal / Rashila Deshar, Dibas Shrestha, Sarina Maharjan and Madan Koirala
Indigenous irrigation system linking people, place and the planet : the practice of jamfwi on the India-Bhutan Borderlands / Anwesha Dutta and Shailendra Yashwant
Rajaki : an indigenous approach to commoning in Hunza, Pakistan / Zainab Khali
Transboundary environments, militarization and minoritization : reimagining international relations in the Himalaya from Ladakh, India / Alexander Davis
Symbiotic indigeneity and commoning in the anthropogenic Himalayas / Dan Smyer Yü
Conclusion: Indigenous heritages and sacred earth / John Grim.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.

Contributor:

Smyer Yü, Dan, editor.
Maaker, Erik de, 1963- editor.
Taylor & Francis eBooks

Other format:

Print version: Environmental humanities in the new Himalayas

ISBN:

9781003144113
100314411X
9780367699796
9781000397581
1000397580
9781000397550
1000397556

Publisher Number:

99990005802
10.4324/9781003144113 doi

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